Time to buy a toy car???

Posted on March 15, 2010 by Angeline
Today I went to the kitchen for awhile and when I came back to the hall, I found Alicia riding on her pooh bear like it was a car… the pooh bear was in her room earlier so she must have ridden on him all the way out from the room, along the corridor of the rooms and out into the hall! And she still added sound effects as she moved around on him: “嘟嘟” (the mandarin equivalent of ‘vroom vroom’: something she picked up at Julia Gabriel’s classes) so I echoed her words…

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Crockpot beef stew

Posted on March 14, 2010 by Angeline

{EDITED recipe in 2016}

crockpot beef stew
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I know the above photo wasn’t very well-taken, but I was hungry and I couldn’t wait to try out the beef stew that I had been wanting sooo long to try cooking! Besides, it was so hot it kept fogging up the camera lens… πŸ˜€

Anyway, it’s really simple and convenient because it’s a crock pot dish and all you need to do is to serve it with rice or toasted bread, whichever you prefer (my hubby prefers rice, so rice it was) and if you like, you can pair it with a salad! I thought the amount was too much for us so I didn’t prepare the veggies but it was so tasty we felt that it wasn’t enough! πŸ™‚ Should have cooked more rice…. lol.

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Crockpot beef stew
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Serves: 8
 
Ingredients
  • 650g flank beef
  • 2 white/ yellow onion (chopped into chunks)
  • 10 white button mushrooms
  • 2-3 big carrots (cut into chunks)
  • 1kg Brastagi potatoes (peeled, cut into chunks)
  • 6 sticks celery (sliced)
  • 2-3 bay leaves
  • 1 Knorr Beef cube
  • 400ml hot water
  • 100g unsalted butter
  • 1 tablespoon heap unflavoured tomato paste
Marinade for beef:
  • all-purpose salt-free herbs (enough to coat the beef cubes nicely)
  • ground black pepper (as desired)
  • 2 tablespoons oyster sauce
  • 2 tablespoons cornflour (add last)
Instructions
  1. Cut the slab of beef into appropriate bite sizes. Marinate.
  2. Dissolve the Knorr beef cube in 400ml hot water to make the beef stock. You may use other types of beef stock if preferred.
  3. Add butterl to a pan. Saute the mushrooms, celery and onions briefly. Remove and set aside.
  4. Add the beef and brown it on all sides. Remove and set aside.
  5. Place the cut potatoes and carrot chunks in the crockpot. Place the beef on top of the potatoes and carrots. Lastly, pour in the sauteed vegetables.
  6. Dissolve the beef stock cube in hot water and pour it into the crockpot.
  7. Cover the crockpot and cook for at least 6 hours.
  8. Add tomato paste at the end of the cooking time. Cover and wait for about 15 minutes before serving.

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